This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > Genres > Poetry > Poetry – Quiz 11 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Poetry Quiz 11 (20 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. Which of the following is a subgenre of British poetry? A) Pastoral. B) Blank verse. C) SLAM. D) Free verse. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Pastoral. 2. Which literary term means the attitude, or feeling, that the author has about the subject? A) Tone. B) Mood. C) Foreshadowing. D) Flashback. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Tone. 3. Restating something in your own words A) Quotes. B) Writing. C) Repetition. D) Paraphrasing. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Paraphrasing. 4. What is ONE thing the poet says we should NOT do with a poem? A) Beat a confession out of it. B) Look at it in the light. C) Walk inside its room. D) Ski across its surface. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Beat a confession out of it. 5. Read these lines from the beginning of the poem. A Bird came down the walk-He did not know I saw; He big an angleworm in halves And ate the fellow, raw Which lines end with words that rhyme? A) Lines 3 and 4 rhyme. B) All four lines rhyme. C) Lines 1 and 3 rhyme. D) Lines 2 and 4 rhyme. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Lines 2 and 4 rhyme. 6. What's the meaning of this personification?"The camera loves me!" A) Photography is one of my hobbies. B) I own an expensive camera. C) Photos of me are always really good. D) I like to visit art museums. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Photos of me are always really good. 7. 'There hung a darkness, call it solitude' A) Exposure. B) Remains. C) London. D) Extract from, The Prelude. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Extract from, The Prelude. 8. A reference to something famous or well-known is called a/an A) Allusion. B) Epic simile. C) Verse. D) Stanza. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Allusion. 9. A line ending in a full pause, usually indicated with a period or semicolon. A) Enjambment. B) End-stopped line. C) Punctuated. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) End-stopped line. 10. Shakespeare wrote ..... sonnets. A) Spenserian. B) Italian. C) Petrarchan. D) English. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) English. 11. Making a comparison between two unlike things using "like, " "as, " or "than." A) Personification. B) Simile. C) Hyperbole. D) Onomatopoeia. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Simile. 12. Words that rhyme inside the line. EX:I'm a CAT who wears a HAT. A) Rhyme scheme. B) Partial rhyme. C) End rhyme. D) Internal rhyme. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Internal rhyme. 13. ..... means special importance given to something. A) Emphasis. B) Novels. C) Reasons. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Emphasis. 14. The sections in poems are called A) Sections. B) Stanzas. C) Parts. D) Pieces of the poem. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Stanzas. 15. Everett held his father's hand as he crossed the busy parking lot. They walked into a grocery store. Everett's dad lifted him into the seat of the shopping cart. "Here, "said dad, "You can hold my shopping list." You can infer that A) Everett had never been to a grocery store. B) Everett's dad does not shop often. C) Everett's dad needs help with shopping. D) Everett is very young. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Everett is very young. 16. The first rays of morning tiptoed through the meadow. Is an example of ..... A) Simile. B) Metaphor. C) Personification. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Personification. 17. "You may shoot me with your wordsYou may cut me with your eyesYou may kill me with your hatefulness" A) Imagery. B) Pun. C) Hyperbole. D) Allusion. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Hyperbole. 18. The imagery of the orange "making a fire in my hands" (final line) is A) Sarcastic, because the boy really wanted chocolate, and not an orange. B) Ironic, because the readers would not expect a twelve year old boy to enjoy eating fruit. C) Strange, because he still has the orange after he gave it to the saleslady. D) Symbolic, because it represents the brightness of the boy's mood. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Symbolic, because it represents the brightness of the boy's mood. 19. Actions, dialogue, and narrative description that reveal a character's personality to the reader. A) Setting. B) Characterization. C) Personalization. D) Flashback. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Characterization. 20. Each unit of stressed and unstressed syllables in a poem is called a A) Foot. B) Meter. C) Rhyme scheme. D) Stanza. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Foot. ← PreviousNext →Related QuizzesGenres QuizzesPoetry Quiz 1Poetry Quiz 2Poetry Quiz 3Poetry Quiz 4Poetry Quiz 5Poetry Quiz 6Poetry Quiz 7Poetry Quiz 8Poetry Quiz 9 🏠 Back to Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books